Wrong author order when saving to Zotero from from Phys. Rev. A website

fran_alba
Yesterday I noticed that when I am on a Phys. Rev. A webpage, for example https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.062211 and I use the "Save to Zotero" button in Firefox the entry in my Zotero database has the wrong author order: the first author becomes the last. If instead I add the paper into Zotero via the DOI there is no such problem.
I don't know how long this has been happening and I guess it might happen on other APS publications, but I haven't checked yet.

What to do? Is anybody able to reproduce this problem or is it just me?
  • adamsmith
    @AbeJellinek I think that's due to the recent change in handling deprecated RIS tags.
    Here's what's in the RIS
    A1 - Georgiev, Danko
    AU - Bello, Leon
    AU - Carmi, Avishy
    AU - Cohen, Eliahu

    That's obviously a weird choice, so you could also just pre-process the RIS in the translator, but generally worth checking if this occurs more frequently.
  • fran_alba
    Thanks for the quick answer, glad to know you have started to look into the issue.
  • AbeJellinek
    Besides the obvious “they should stop doing it that way,” maybe I’ll just exclude repeatable tags (like authors) from the list of deprecated tags that get processed at the end.
  • AbeJellinek
    Alright, I just pushed out a fix for this issue. Your Zotero Connector should auto-update within 24 hours, or you can update manually by clicking Update Translators in the Advanced pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.
  • fran_alba
    Excellent, thanks a lot, I updated the translators and now it's fixed!
  • AbeJellinek
    No problem at all!
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